COP25 must ensure help for the countries most affected by the climate crisis
Ahead of the 25th UN climate change talks (COP25) in Madrid, IIED director Andrew Norton has stressed the importance of the negotiations: “The alarming rise in global devastation from climate change demands governments agree urgent action in Madrid. Decisions need to put the world on course to no more than a 1.5°C temperature rise above pre-industrial levels. We cannot afford to go higher.
Next year is the point donors have committed to increase climate finance support to more than $100 billion a year. For it to be effective, rich countries must learn recent lessons and support developing countries’ own vision for climate responses and make sure more money reaches the local level. They need to agree measures that further increase climate finance, ensure it is more flexible and addresses people’s priorities.”
Read the full statement from Andrew Norton.
IIED researchers and partners will also be active throughout COP25, including at official side events during the fortnight.
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Recent blogs on climate change
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Blog by Andrew Norton
Acting on the planetary emergency
With evidence of grave ecological and social crises mounting, director Andrew Norton considers the scale and shape of the challenges ahead and how IIED can step up action to meet them.
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Guest blog by Pernille Holtedahl
When investors go green
Guest blogger Pernille Holtedahl unpacks the growing appetite for green bonds and suggests this is a movement driven by the broader public – not just business.
Pernille Holtedahl is the founder of Blue Maia, a green finance advisory firm. Read her guest blog
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Blog by Barry Smith
Towards better assessment of adaptation results
How can countries align their climate adaptation assessment mechanisms with other frameworks? Barry Smith highlights opportunities for achieving effective adaptation monitoring and evaluation.
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Recent papers and reports
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Backgrounder, 2 pages
The critical role of science in guiding UN climate negotiations
The role of scientists in informing and guiding the UN climate change negotiations is critically important and the most recent report on holding global temperature rise to 1.5°C received a particularly contentious response within the UN decision-making body. In the face of an escalating climate crisis, governments must use the best available science to take rapid and proportionate action.
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Working paper, 60 pages
Framing and tracking 21st century climate adaptation
There is an urgent need for frameworks to help countries meet their adaptation obligations under the Paris Agreement while preparing for warming that breaches the Paris temperature thresholds. Countries will need to track their adaptation activities to determine what does and does not work, identify good practice, and capture lessons that can inform adaptation planning, design and implementation
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Briefing by Clare Shakya, Marek Soanes, Barry Smith
Calling for business unusual: reforming climate finance
The climate finance system is failing to respond to the triple crises of poverty, climate and nature. Going further and faster on climate action requires a whole-of-society response and more, and better, climate finance that reaches local levels. So, what needs to change? This briefing sets out some principles for reforming the current climate finance system.
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Briefing by Gabriel Kpaka, Caroline Dihl Prolo, Anna Schulz, Binyam Yakob Gebreyes
Ensuring COP25 delivers increased ambition in 2020
COP25 must build on the political momentum generated by the UN Climate Action Summit held in September. To that end, COP25 must finalise rules for the use of carbon markets and common time frames for submission of Nationally Determined Contributions, and successfully review and strengthen the institutional mechanisms to address loss and damage.
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Briefing by Sam Greene, Marek Soanes, Anna Walnycki
Reimagining the climate finance system with digital technology
Local communities and enterprises must be at the heart of just responses to reducing poverty, conserving and restoring nature, and avoiding catastrophic climate change. Innovations in digital technology could help channel more funds directly to the people and places that need it most, as well as having the potential to disrupt prevailing power dynamics for fairer resource governance.
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Briefing by Xiaoting Hou-Jones, Duncan Macqueen
Thriving in diversity: smallholders organising for climate resilience
Forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) can help drive a paradigm shift away from large-scale monocultural systems, which are vulnerable to climate change and highly inequitable. Public and private sectors must provide: the necessary technical and business support, access to finance and support for cross-sectoral policies to scale up FFPO-led climate adaptation actions.
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Briefing by Illari Aragon, Tshewang Dorji
Meeting the enhanced transparency framework: what next for the LDCs?
The enhanced transparency framework (ETF) of the Paris Agreement requires all countries to report information demonstrating progress towards their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) every two years. The first ETF reports due are by 2024 and countries need to prepare to meet the stricter standards of this enhanced framework. This briefing describes some of its key features and implementation challenges in Least Developed Countries.
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